Protest Like a Patriot, Police Like a Parent: How to Weed Out the Violence and Looters and Keep Your Protest Legit
Ever noticed how a handful of bad apples can turn a noble protest into a nightly news dumpster fire?
Leading or participating in a protest comes with Rights AND Responsibilities.
If you want the First Amendment to survive the digital age—rather than be discredited by looters on TikTok—you’ve got to police your own ranks.
Why are you willing to fight police and military; and not willing to control your own surroundings and the people in them??
Here’s a look at how to keep your march meaningful, not mean and civil, not criminal.
1. Recruit Your Own “Peace Marshals”
Mission: Spot and shoo away anyone itching for a Molotov moment.
How: Designate volunteers wearing bright vests as “Peace Marshals.” Their job is de-escalation, not deputizing.
If someone’s window-shopping at an electronics store… literally shopping… it’s time for a gentle escort out of your crowd.
Why Policing Matters
Ask yourself: If you cheer for “justice for all” but permit vandals to hijack the cause, you’ll end up with none.
Allowing a minority of miscreants to trash your message, and you’ll lose the public faith in your cause.
Document those that are supplying projectiles like bricks, fireworks and rocks or stoking violence so that those evil elements can be held accountable.
Those who supply these weapons and contribute to the violence should face punishment!
2. Keep Your Eyes and Ears Open
You get zero from those who exploit your cause. They are there only to "profit" from your cause and sow chaos.
When you see someone casing the ATM or “collecting donations” off-camera, the standard response should not be “Viva la Révolution”—it should be a firm and definitive “you’re out of here!”
3. Clear Messaging, Clear Morals
If your signs read “End corruption,” they shouldn’t double as shields for smash-and-grab artists.
As one local organizer put it, “This is a shame, and we as a country must be a better example.”
Same goes for protests: no half-hearted disclaimers.
Shout it from the megaphone: “Violence, looting, theft—NOT allowed! We're a peaceful protest crowd!”
4. Stage Your Exit
Plan a “safe zone” where peaceful protesters can retreat if things go sideways.
A quick code—say, three blasts on a whistle—signals everyone to disperse calmly.
5. Embrace the Buddy System
Pair up “veteran” protesters with newbies. The seasoned experience quickly irons out callow enthusiasm for property damage and violence.
If your partner is scanning for Gucci bags in the crowd, it’s time to call it quits—and lose that partner!
6. Propagate the 3 “D”s of Accountability
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Document everything: Use your phone to film agitators.
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Denounce immediately: Condemn violence on your livestream.
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Ditch disruptors: Physically remove or report anyone trading sneakers or TVs.
7. Celebrate the Good, Banish the Bad
When local news reports on protests, you know what they forget to film: the peaceful chants and the calm protests, it seems those scenes never make the cut.
Make your own highlight reel—#GoodProtestMoments—and flood social media so the public sees your cause, not their excuses.
Show how your cause is protecting its message by stopping looting and kicking out agitators; that's what social media should see!
8. After-Action Cleanup
Looters don’t litter—protesters do.
Organize a post-protest trash pickup.
Nothing says “we’re responsible citizens” like a row of volunteers with garbage bags.
Your community will thank you, and the cameras might just show your good side.
Final Word
Protesting is a right; preserving that right means weeding out the few who would hijack it.
You risk protest rights for yourself as well as others when you attack or block authorities and you will eventually lose the ability to freely protest because you could not or would not control your own crowd!
Police your own protests, eject the troublemakers, and keep your righteous flame from burning down the very liberties you’re fighting to protect!
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